Ich Recipes

Steps:

• Saute the two large onions in olive oil for a few minutes. Do not brown. Add stewed tomatoes and tomato sauce and simmer, covered, for approximately 30 minutes. Remove sauce from heat and mix well with bulgar. Add lemon juice, salt to tasted, and black pepper. Keep stirring from time to time until bulgur absorbs all of the moisture and swells. This takes two hours. Add chopped parsley, scallions, and Bermuda onion. Mix well and serve cold.
• Feel free to add green pepper, red, orange, or yellow for extra color. Add jalepeno for an extra kick.

Steps:

• Chop onion and peppers into a small dice or pulse them in a food processor.
• Heat oil in a large saute pan over medium heat and add diced vegetables.
• Reduce heat to medium-low and saute 5-10 minutes until the vegetables are tender.
• Add can of tomato sauce, tomato paste and the juice of the 2 lemons. Fill the tomato can with water and add that to the pan.
• Bring to a boil and add paprika, salt and pepper.
• Add the bulgur, remove from heat, cover the pan and let sit until liquid is absorbed and bulgur is tender (about 1/2 hour).
• Stir in chopped parsley.
• Can be eaten immediately, within a couple hours, or refrigerate and eat later.